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October 02 A PR Nightmare for the Obamas [Victor Davis Hanson] One can understand an American president’s lobbying for an American city to obtain the Olympics, but the blitz by the Obamas proved a PR nightmare. Let us count the ways: 1) Obama’s brand is trans-nationalism and an “America is not exceptional” multiculturalism. According to his worldview, it makes sense that a South American country — especially a powerful, ascendant country such as Brazil — should at last have its turn at hosting the Olympics. It did not seem consistent that a politician who had reached out to the Castros,...

Simply retarded. Here is Ed Shultz blaming the failure of Chicago to get the Olympics...not on The-Me-President, not on MEchelle.....but on conservatives because we dared to criticize the fact that he went there in the first place. You will never guess who he compares conservatives to: [VIDEO AT SITE] What the Republicans did, I think, rivals Jane Fonda sitting on a gun in North VietnamYup, they are all for lowering the discourse in this country ain't they? A good dose of Xanax is in store for this fellow. Meanwhile Roland Burris is blaming it on Bush and Axelrod is blaming...

em>Obama finally meets with McChrystal for 25 minutes. Guess who did most of the talking? Only 25 minutes with thousands of American lives and Victory on the line?(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net